I’ve been playing with old print trays recently. When I was little my Mum had lots of these trays in her antique shop in Suffolk and my sister and I were allowed one each in which to store our treasures. Mine was full of shells and pebbles and fossils. I’ve been playing around with this idea of treasure

I prepared papers with layers of inks and loose pigment, and I cut them to the size of the sections. Each one shows a study for trees, leaves and tile designs. Some are stitched, some are gilded. Some are just going to remain a plain colour.

I keep on playing around and rearranging them so that the colours balance. But eventually I am going to have to commit and stick them down!

I have a idea of doing one full of bird studies too. I’ll see how this one goes together first… This is going to to go into the Tall Trees and Warm Stone exhibition at Heart at the end of March.

Back in November I began to exhibit with the wonderful Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge. The last two months with them have been brilliant and i am now proud to announce my first solo exhibition there.

The new body of work, entitled Tall Trees and Warm Stone, will be previewing on Thursday 28th March. There will be at least 12 new paintings and accompanying  prints. I will be posting some images of the new work in the coming weeks.

Please come along for a glass of wine and a look!

The exhibition continues until the beginning of July.

in the meantime Heart have a frequently changing display of my work, and a browser of my hand finished prints.